I
once knew a man who, in a drunken rage, wrecked his beautiful apartment.
The next day he showed me the mass of splintered furniture, broken glass,
and gouges in the walls, waved a hand at it, and said, sadly, “Look
what happened.”

Happened?
It didn’t “happen,” champ. You threw stuff down the
stairs and across the living room while you were screaming mad drunk.

The
great comedian John Cleese, creator and star of “Fawlty Towers,”
Monty Python alumnus, was in the news last summer, complaining about what
“happened” to Great Britain. Here are a few of his remarks,
culled from various UK newspapers.

•
”London is no longer an English city. That’s how we got the
Olympics.”•
He doesn’t like an England in which “the parent culture kind
of dissipates.”•
He decries Britain’s shift away from a “middle-class culture”
and into a “yob culture.” “There were disadvantages
to the old culture, it was a bit stuffy and it was more sexist and more
racist. But it was an educated and middle-class culture. Now it’s
a yob culture. The values are so strange.”•
Cleese now lives in California. When he visits England, he prefers to
stay in Bath rather than London. “I love being down in Bath because
it feels like the England that I grew up in.”

And
now comes the kicker.

Cleese
turned down an appointment to the House of Lords—he’d have
gone from being Basil Fawlty to being Lord John Cleese—because he
didn’t want to be in England for the winter.

Why
was he offered a peerage? Because, he explained, he’d done so much
for, and donated so much money to… the Liberal Democratic Party.

But
let’s get back to those things he doesn’t like that have “happened”
to England.

If the
English are being displaced from their capitol city by mass immigration,
did that just “happen,” or was it the easily foreseeable result
of liberal politicians’ immigration policies?

If the
native culture of the country is being dissipated, could that possibly
have any connection to liberal leaders’ avowed passion for multiculturalism?
You know—that whole idea, if that’s the word for it, that
all cultures are equal and that preferring your own culture, in your own
country, to imported foreign cultures, makes you a bigot and a hate-monger.
So you have self-hating English tinhorn bureaucrats removing the English
flag from English public buildings because its presence might offend some
immigrant from Pakistan. We are not aware of any immigrant from anywhere
actually demanding that this be done. Liberals just have an instinct for
urinating on their country.

As for
the passing away of middle-class culture—well, it didn’t just
dry up and blow away, did it? Know-it-all liberals have made war against
it for longer than John Cleese has been alive. They couldn’t contain
their hatred and contempt for what academics and movie stars and leftist
speechifiers called “the bourgeoisie” and “bourgeois
values.” Cleese himself made a whole career of making fun of the
middle class.

Some
Americans might not know what a “yob culture” is. It’s
the English equivalent of what passes for culture in the worst parts of
Detroit or Washington, D.C. Yobbos or yobs are perpetually unemployed
welfare cases devoted to crime, violence, alcohol, and ignorance. Trying
to educate them is an exercise in futility. The dole, generation after
generation of fatherless homes, and the removal of Christian morality
from the cultural mainstream have combined to create the yob culture.
In other words, it is the product of jackass public policies avidly pursued
by liberals—the same twits to whom John Cleese donates so much time
and money. Kind of like buying another drink for the guy who’s wrecking
his apartment.

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The
yob culture didn’t just happen. Members of Parliament, experts in
the social (lol) “sciences,” and pundits in the British media
painstakingly, and at great expense, created it. Ordinary people in English
cities who can’t get any sleep at night because the yobs are out
there breaking windows and yelling curses have England’s ruling
class to thank for this. And unlike John Cleese, they can’t just
move to another country. They’re stranded in England.

No,
John, these things you’ve come to hate in England didn’t just
happen. You wanted a post-Christian, post-bourgeois, post-English utopia
in England, and now you’ve got it.

Lee Duigon,
a contributing editor with the Chalcedon Foundation, is a former newspaper
reporter and editor, small businessman, teacher, and horror novelist.
He has been married to his wife, Patricia, for 34 years. See his new
fantasy/adventure novels, Bell Mountain and The Cellar Beneath the Cellar,
available on www.amazon.com

The great comedian
John Cleese, creator and star of “Fawlty Towers,” Monty Python
alumnus, was in the news last summer, complaining about what “happened”
to Great Britain. Here are a few of his remarks, culled from various UK
newspapers.